February 24, 2013
"Although you can – as the anarchist slogan says – “live despite capitalism”, you can’t live “despite” fascism, genocidal racism, extreme sexual counter-revolution and war. As the gears of mainstream politics and economic crisis clash and grind above their heads, I would expect this realisation to be the guiding factor in where the movements that began in 2011 turn next."

— Paul Mason in The Guardian. From Arab Spring to global revolution

In an excerpt from his book Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere, Paul Mason argues that a global protest movement, based on social networks, is here to stay

Mason’s book Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

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Filed under: politics Occupy 
October 22, 2012
"One of the unique characteristics of the Occupy movement is how it has continually stymied attempts at its domestication by refusing to articulate demands. In other words, it has embraced a politics of the gesture, of bodily presence and weight, wherein the exterior action of inhabiting a park or a sidewalk becomes the basis of politics and the accepted political arena becomes a sham. This politics, like the world of puppets, is premised on exteriority. It is a politics that hinges on the ceaseless weaving together of movement and stasis."

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Craig Epplin at The Reanimation Library. Puppets Are Not People

Via Sunday Reading

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Filed under: puppets occupy politics 
October 21, 2012
"As a result, Native people have to pick their battles. Even in cases where they win, their victories tend to be only temporary. Quite often, their success depends on meaningful solidarity in these struggles from non-Native people. Such solidarity begins with a genuine attempt to understand the specific issues Native people are facing. It must also include reckoning with the fact that they continue to be colonized by the dominant society — something for which Columbus Day provides a perfect opportunity."

— Will Parrish at Ukiah Blog (originally in TheAVA). The Struggles Of Local Sacred Sites…

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Filed under: Indians politics occupy environment 
September 18, 2012
"In actual fact you want to reclaim some of your grandeur, reclaim the belief, call certain parts of yourself out of exile. Many stories end in a wedding, they end in a wedding for one reason, the storyteller is saying to you, call to the wedding the parts of you that have got edited and cut away as you age, bring it all back to the feast."

— Dr. Martin Shaw at Transition Culture. An interview with Dr. Martin Shaw: “A lot of opportunity is going to arrive in the next 20 years disguised as loss”

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August 20, 2012
A Day in the Life of Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez (People’s Library), August 13th, 2012, East Oakland post by Aaron Bady at The New Inquiry. Photos by and courtesy of Andrew Kenower. Jamie Omar Yassin posted Update on the People’s Library in Fruitvale at Hyphenated-Republic.

A Day in the Life of Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez (People’s Library), August 13th, 2012, East Oakland post by Aaron Bady at The New Inquiry. Photos by and courtesy of Andrew Kenower.

Jamie Omar Yassin posted Update on the People’s Library in Fruitvale at Hyphenated-Republic.

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Filed under: occupy occupy wall st books community police 
May 23, 2012
"They say, “In over-there-a-stan, surveillance is oppressive. But over here, it’s okay, we have a lawful process.” (Which is not necessarily a judicial process. For example, Eric Holder and the drones … sounds like a band, right?)"

— Jacob Appelbaum in Occupy! #4 (PDF). Don’t Turn Off Your Cellphone

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Filed under: occupy communication surveillance 
May 17, 2012
"We’re really regressing back to the dark ages. It’s not a joke. And if that’s happening in the most powerful, richest country in history, then this catastrophe isn’t going to be averted - and in a generation or two, everything else we’re talking about won’t matter. Something has to be done about it very soon in a dedicated, sustained way."

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Noam Chomsky in Aljazeera.Plutonomy and the precariat: On the history of the US economy in decline

The current US economy is built on ‘growing worker insecurity’ - people who are too busy and poor to make demands.

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Filed under: economy Occupy assholocracy 
May 1, 2012
"It’s high time that “we, the people” in the U.S. reclaimed the date of the people’s holiday: May Day. Moving Labor Day was always about disassociating the left in the US from the international community, and thus weakening both. The Occupy movement in all its forms is about giving that 99% a great deal of its voice back."

— Steve Hynd in The Agonist. Taking Back May Day

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Filed under: May Day labor occupy 
May 1, 2012
"Today, the struggle continues to celebrate May Day not as a “law day” as defined by political leaders, but as a day whose meaning is decided by the people, a day rooted in organizing and working for a better future for the whole of society."

— Noam Chomsky in Zuccotti Park Press via Ukiah Blog. Chomsky: May Day

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Filed under: May Day occupy 
April 30, 2012
"[T]here’s a lot of public space in New York City, but there’s very little public space in which you can engage in common activity. Athenian democracy had the agora. Where can we go in New York City, where we can have an agora, and really talk. And this is what the assemblies were trying to define, what the people in Zuccotti Park were trying to do. They made a space where we can have a political dialogue. So we need to take public space, which, it turns out, is a space in which the public is not allowed, and turn it into a political commons, where real decisions are going to be made, where we can decide if it’s a good idea to have another building project, another bunch of condominiums."

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Max Rivlin-Nadler in Salon. Urban Revolution Is Coming 

Occupy may mark the beginning of a new era of city-based uprisings. An expert explains why — and how

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